Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Blood Moon
Chang Butong ignored Runzi and further explained his opinion, saying: "Since he asked us to come, of course, the sooner the better, is it possible to delay until the moment before dawn, if it were you, you wouldn't do this." ”
After analyzing a circle, we seem to be back to the starting point, the "hero" didn't come, and we guests seem to be left and right, whether to continue to wait, or go back to the stone temple, I, as an apprentice, naturally have to obey the master's orders.
Chang Butong stared at the sea, the moonlight reflected on his glasses, dotted with white light, a little dazzling, I don't know what he was thinking in his heart.
Long Yiming can't care about those who don't have it, and it's the most practical to do it. He greeted Junko and began rummaging around looking for the best spot to ambush.
In my opinion, this is also a split action. According to their respective ideas, no matter what the starting point is, there is only one purpose, which is to rescue Qin Ling and arrest Wu Santong.
In the end, I was left with nothing to do, so I found a big rock along the road to rest for a while, and with my right hand, I felt in my pocket and took out the medicine bag that my mother had given me when I was leaving. Wrapped in gray linen, the medicine sachet was prepared by Dr. Tang in the village, and smelled of the herb. I don't know much about medicine, obviously I don't know what's in it, but I feel a faint feeling of homesickness after smelling too much.
Dr. Tang and Grandpa Mazi have similar personalities, they both like to live alone, about forty years old, but they show their ability and stability beyond his age, and he is the only doctor in Mizusawa Village who is unwilling to work in the township hospital. If ordinary people had been on the shelves a long time ago, the hospital treatment was good, the working environment was good, who didn't want to make a career at a young age, so Runzi's father didn't know how many times he persuaded him, but he was always rejected. With his medical skills, he can be on his own, but he would rather live in a small village, but this is fine, if the villagers have headaches and brain fevers, they don't have to go all the way to the hospital, as long as they call Dr. Tang, he will rush to the door to treat the disease day and night.
When I was treating ear disease, he would come to see me almost every day, and although I couldn't find the cause of the disease in the end, his enthusiasm for patients and meticulous care made me look at him differently. Sometimes I feel like he's my family too.
Hey, the days away from home are not long, but I think of the people and things in the village, I don't know what my parents are doing at this time, hehe, of course I am sleeping. I amused myself at my clumsy thoughts. By the way, the diary that my father handed me didn't have time to look at yet, and I kept it in the package since I left home, I don't know if it wrote my background and who I am......
As the minutes passed, the situation in front of us did not change in the slightest, and we were a little impatient to wait. Long Yiming and Runzi simply practiced kung fu on the beach, and you punched me and I slapped it, and they were very happy.
Suddenly, Chang Butong seemed to see something terrifying, and took off his glasses and sighed at the moon.
I hurriedly walked up to him and asked, "Master, what's going on?" ”
Chang Butong glanced sideways at me, not even for a second, and immediately looked up at the moon. I felt an inexplicable fear in his eyes, and it was the most uneasy I had ever seen him.
He slowly opened his mouth and said, "The old man made a mistake, and he didn't expect that it was the blood moon piercing the stars. ”
Blood moon piercing stars, as soon as Chang Butong said this word, my mind was suddenly awakened, and I involuntarily let out an "ah", and a sense of tension arose in my heart that I was unintentionally talking about the central matter, isn't this the poem written on the inner page of "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism".
Chang Butong saw that my reaction was abnormal, and his thoughts finally came to me, and asked, "Have you heard of it?" ”
"No, no," I quickly avoided his eyes that only wanted to see through me, and disguised, "It's nothing, I'm just curious, what does this mean?" ”
Actually, I'm not lying, I really don't know what that poem means, let alone those four words in it.
Chang Butong looked up at the sky and read out the poem: "The heavenly stone seals the demon corpse, and the earth needle locks the corpse; There is a lonely island in the sea, and the blood moon shines through the stars. The five elements gather all the corpses, and the bones lead to the funeral lamp; The stone temple enters the alien, and the secret treasure of immortality comes out of ......"
I was very puzzled as to why people from both eras talked about this poem, but I had never seen it in textbooks or other books, let alone heard it from others.
I always thought that this was Jiang Youdao's perception and summary of his Taoist career, but I didn't know that at this moment, what Chang Butong said was extremely intriguing, could it be inextricably linked with Wu Santong.
My guess was answered in the next moment.
Next, Chang Butong first revealed the secret of "Blood Moon Piercing Stars".
As the name suggests, it can be understood from the literal meaning alone, the blood moon piercing the stars is related to the moon and stars, and the probability that this special astronomical anomaly will appear is once in 7749 years, but it is not always necessary, and it also needs the cooperation of the Big Dipper and the North Star.
In other words, in the Taoist interpretation, the Big Dipper is the Breaking Army Xingjun of the Shaking Light Palace, the Wuqu Xingjun of the Kaiyang Palace, the Lianzhen Xingjun of the Yuheng Palace, the Wenqu Xingjun of the Tianquan Palace, the Lucun Xingjun of the Tianji Palace, the Jumen Xingjun of the Tianxuan Palace, and the Greedy Wolf Xingjun of the Tianshu Palace. These seven true stars in the sky are arranged in a certain arrangement in the shape of bucket handles, and although they hang high in the sky and have different directions for a year, the truth can only be revealed at night. The seven stars have been surrounding the brightest in the sky, the Ziwei Palace Polaris Jun, that is, the North Star, which is self-contained.
The Blood Moon appears red from the naked eye, that is, a total lunar eclipse, which is regarded as a bad omen, and when the Blood Moon runs through the Big Dipper and finally stays in the North Star, it is a great evil. The celestial phenomena correspond to the mortal world, and there will be inexplicable murders in the human world, and even the king of heaven will be frightened to hide, not to mention these ordinary people in the world, unarmed and stumbling on their feet.
All kinds of situations are intertwined with each other, and on the night of the fifteenth night tonight, ordinary people can't predict it at all, and they don't have this ability, except for one person, that is, Qin Ling, Qin Daochang. He is a Taoist priest, and he speculates that the strange celestial phenomenon of the bleeding moon piercing the stars is simply well understood. I thought that Wu Santong taking away Qin Ling would be revenge on the Nine Sect generals, but it seems that we are thinking too simply.
Fortunately, Chang Butong also knows what we are facing, but people have a trace of luck, and until the last moment, they absolutely do not believe that they are facing doom.
We were facing the sky, and now the full moon had turned from white to red as we spoke, and it was so large and so clear that it seemed to be within reach, as if it had become a blood moon as red as blood.
I didn't expect that after forty-nine years of reincarnation, I would once again experience the advent of the blood moon, which is a later story.